Archive | Design

02 December 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Hacking Wordpress When You’ve Forgotten Your Password

Do you have multiple Wordpress self-hosted blogs? If so, you’ve likely run into a scenario where you just can’t remember the password to one. With Wordpress 2.5 and beyond there’s an annoying bug that sometimes generates passwords that don’t work when you click the “Forgot Password” option. Usually that button generates a query that will [...]

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01 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Free Wordpress Theme: Aqua Marina

Theme: Aqua MarinaAuthor: Jon GosVersion: 0.5 RosieDescription: An original Wordpress theme.

This was my first attempt at a bespoke wordpress theme. I created it in Photoshop then marked up to XHTML and then PHP. This is a public beta, please help me work out all the bugs and kinks by posting any errors as [...]

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20 March 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Improve Image Quality of Boonex Dolphin

Recently I’ve begun building a community using the open source Boonex Dolphin software CMS. One problem I was having was that, even after using the the site UI to improve image quality, it still seemed as if uploading images was ‘lossy’. After some research and a chat with the admins I came up [...]

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16 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

More on Visualization

More on data visualization which I talked about here.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php

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10 March 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Free Wordpress Theme – Tech Blogger

Theme: Tech Blogger v1
Author: Jon Gos
Based on: CMS2 by Wonder
Includes: PSDs, CSS, javascript, New Media font, all image files
Plug-Ins: All-In-One SEO Pack, I Love Social Bookmarking, Image Scaler, User Photo and Simple Tags
Notes: Widegtized, Validated and ready to roll!
Download it from Mediafire

About the Theme
I began modifying this theme when I noticed that the author had [...]

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09 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

48 Uses for Wordpress

Want to roll your own Twitter or Feedburner? Who know of all the things you could do with WP?
48 Uses for Wordpress

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26 February 2008 ~ 3 Comments

The Untold History of Web 2.0 Fonts Pt. 1

Web 2.0 and everything that came along with it has reshaped every industry it’s touched, including typography and logo design. I was compiling a list of alternative fonts for Web 2.0 when I started to wonder, “Where do all these fonts come from?”
The result is a list of 7 or so of my favorite [...]

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21 February 2008 ~ 92 Comments

Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it’ll give your website a cavity. Then I’ll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself. If you want to skip the [...]

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19 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Rounded Corners

In amendment to my last round up of web based design tools, I need to make sure I mention Roundpic which allows you to upload any image from your desktop or any website, and round the corners with a nifty and easy to use UI. It’s definitely at it than Photoshop. Check it [...]

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06 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Processing A Programming Handbook

I haven’t done much in Proce55ing lately but I plan on getting back to it soon enough. One of my new tools in helping me learn is Casey Reas’ Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists from MIT PRess. I highly recommend it as it’s full of great examples and instructions [...]

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